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Epidemiology and Community Health
New epidemiology and community health research from Harvard University discussed
January 10th, 2009
"Conceptual models are crucial for theorising, depicting and explaining population distributions of health inequities. This is because a visual conceptual model, like a map, can simultaneously organise and spur ideas and observations," investigators in the United States report. "Incorporating both imagery and metaphor, visual models not only illustrate key constructs and causal relationships specified by scientific theories but also provide an important tool for integrating and evaluating rapidly emerging findings and for guiding new research. It therefore is instructive to consider and contrast different sets of images appearing in the public health, policy and popular...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-10)
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